# 跛

| 跛 | U+8DDB, &#36315; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8DDB |
| ← 跚 [U+8DDA] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 跜 → [U+8DDC] |

## Translingual
### Han character

跛 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口一木竹水 (RMDHE), four-corner 6414$_7$, composition ⿰𧾷皮)

#### Derived characters

* 𭊱, 𮜈, 𮆎

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1224, character 5
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37479
* Dae Jaweon: page 1695, character 29
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3699, character 4
* Unihan data for U+8DDB

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 陂 | *pral, *prals |
| 詖 | *pral, *prals |
| 彼 | *pralʔ |
| 柀 | *pralʔ |
| 佊 | *pralʔ, *prals |
| 貱 | *prals |
| 跛 | *prals, *paːlʔ |
| 披 | *pʰral, *pʰralʔ |
| 鈹 | *pʰral |
| 帔 | *pʰral, *pʰrals |
| 鮍 | *pʰral |
| 耚 | *pʰral |
| 狓 | *pʰral |
| 翍 | *pʰral |
| 旇 | *pʰral, *brals |
| 秛 | *pʰral, *pʰrals |
| 紴 | *pʰralʔ, *paːl |
| 皮 | *bral |
| 疲 | *bral |
| 被 | *bralʔ, *brals |
| 髲 | *brals |
| 鞁 | *brals |
| 骳 | *mbralʔ |
| 波 | *paːl |
| 碆 | *paːl, *baːl |
| 菠 | *paːl |
| 簸 | *paːlʔ, *paːls |
| 駊 | *paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ |
| 頗 | *pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls |
| 坡 | *pʰaːl |
| 玻 | *pʰaːl |
| 破 | *pʰaːls |
| 婆 | *baːl |
| 蔢 | *baːl |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *prals, *paːlʔ) : semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 皮 (OC *bral).

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(p/b)aːj (“lame; limp; askew”); compare Proto-Kuki-Chin *ɓa(a)j ~ *pa(a)j (“lame; limp”), Burmese ဖဲ (hpai:, “to avoid”), ဖယ် (hpai, “to push aside”), ပယ် (pai, “to reject”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2014).
Colloquial readings in some southern varieties preserve the Old Chinese rime (Schuessler, 2007); the colloquial word is written as 𨃅 in Southwestern Mandarin and Xiang.

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Standard)
       (Pinyin): bǒ (bo$^3$)
       (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˇ
    (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): bo$^3$
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bai$^1$ / bo$^2$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): pâi
    (Meixian, Guangdong): bai$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): pái / páiⁿ / pó
    (Teochew, Peng'im): po$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bǒ
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bǒ
*** Wade–Giles: po$^3$
*** Yale: bwǒ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: boo
*** Palladius: бо (bo)
*** Sinological IPA : /pu̯ɔ²¹⁴/
** (Chengdu)
*** Sichuanese Pinyin: bo$^3$
*** Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: bo
*** Sinological IPA : /po⁵³/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bai$^1$ / bo$^2$
*** Yale: bāi / bó
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bai$^1$ / bo$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bei$^1$ / bo$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɐi̯⁵⁵/, /pɔː³⁵/
* bai1 - vernacular;
* bo2 - literary.
* Middle Chinese: paX
Rime :
| Character | 跛 |
| Reading # | 1/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 戈 (95) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 布火切 |
| Baxter | paX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /puɑ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /puɑ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /puɑ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /pwa$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /puɑ$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /puɑ$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /puɑ$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bǒ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bo$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤajʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*paːlʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 跛 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | bǒ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ pa$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*pˁajʔ/ |
| English | walk lame |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 跛 |
| Reading # | 2/2 |
| No. | 9723 |
| Phonetic component | 皮 |
| Rime group | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 跛 |
| Old Chinese | /*paːlʔ/ |

#### Definitions

跛
* lame; crippled

##### Synonyms

* 瘸 (qué)

#### Compounds

* 偏跛
* 傴巫跛擊 / 伛巫跛击
* 手瘸腳跛 / 手瘸脚跛
* 瘸手跛腳 / 瘸手跛脚
* 盲僮跛豎 / 盲僮跛竖
* 眇跛
* 跛佬
* 跛匡
* 跛夫
* 跛奚
* 跛子 (bǒzi)
* 跛手
* 跛手太監——無拳無勢 / 跛手太监——无拳无势
* 跛曳
* 跛牂
* 跛癱 / 跛瘫
* 跛眇
* 跛立箕坐
* 跛羅蓋子 / 跛罗盖子
* 跛腳 / 跛脚 (bǒjiǎo)
* 跛腳鴨 / 跛脚鸭 (bǒjiǎoyā)
* 跛行 (bǒxíng)
* 跛覡 / 跛觋
* 跛足 (bǒzú)
* 跛足從事 / 跛足从事
* 跛跨
* 跛跤 (pái-kha) (Hokkien)
* 跛踦
* 跛蹇 (bǒjiǎn)
* 跛蹩
* 跛蹶
* 跛躄
* 跛躓 / 跛踬
* 跛驢 / 跛驴
* 跛鱉 / 跛鳖
* 跛鱉千里 (bǒbiēqiānlǐ)
* 踦跛
* 蹇跛
* 躄跛
* 顛跛 / 颠跛

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bì (bi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bei$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bì
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bì
*** Wade–Giles: pi$^4$
*** Yale: bì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
*** Palladius: би (bi)
*** Sinological IPA : /pi⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bei$^3$
*** Yale: bei
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bei$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: béi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /pei̯³³/
* Middle Chinese: pjeH
Rime :
| Character | 跛 |
| Reading # | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (13) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 彼義切 |
| Baxter | pjeH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pˠiᴇ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pᵚiɛ$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /piɛ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /pjiə̆$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /pje$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /pǐe$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /pie̯$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bei$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*prals/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 跛 |
| Reading # | 1/2 |
| No. | 9697 |
| Phonetic component | 皮 |
| Rime group | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 賁 |
| Old Chinese | /*prals/ |

#### Definitions

跛
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#### Compounds

* 跛倚
* 跛立
* 跛立箕坐

### References

* “跛”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* “Query for 跛”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* lame; crippled
* to stand on one foot; to slant

#### Readings

From Middle Chinese 跛 (MC paX); compare Mandarin 跛 (bǒ):
* Go-on: は (ha)
* Kan-on: は (ha)
From Middle Chinese 跛 (MC pjeH); compare Mandarin 跛 (bì):
* Go-on: ひ (hi)
* Kan-on: ひ (hi)
* Kan’yō-on: は (ha)
From native Japanese roots:
* Kun: あしなえ (ashinae, 跛)、ちんば (chinba, 跛)、びっこ (bikko, 跛)

#### Compounds

* 跛(は)蹇(けん) (haken)
* 跛(は)行(こう) (hakō)
* 跛(は)者(しゃ) (hasha)
* 跛(は)説(せつ) (hasetsu)
* 跛(ひ)倚(い) (hī)
* 蹇(けん)跛(ぱ) (kenpa)

### Etymology 1

* Kanji in this term
* 跛
* ちんば Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 跛 – see the following entry. :
| 【ちんば】 | [adjective] (likely offensive) crippled; unable to walk properly [noun] (likely offensive) cripple; someone who is unable to walk properly |
(This term, 跛, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

### Etymology 2

* Kanji in this term
* 跛
* びっこ Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 跛 – see the following entry. :
| 【びっこ】 | [noun] (likely offensive) cripple; someone who is unable to walk properly |
(This term, 跛, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

## Korean
### Hanja

跛 • (pa, pi) (hangeul 파, 피, revised pa, pi, McCune–Reischauer p'a, p'i, Yale pha, phi)
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